Parliament of Montenegro submitted an addition to criminal report on fake travel orders, looking that the investigation lead by Basic State Prosecution be expanded to complete year 2016, not only November and December, when there were suspicions that someone is using fake travel orders to cover up shortages in parliamentary budget, Dnevne Novine daily reports.
New administration of Montenegrin Parliament noticed by the end of last year that there were travel orders written in names of former MPs or current MPs who had not travel on the dates noted, so they submitted a criminal report on January 9th. Police seized orders for the last two months of last year, as well as additional documents.
Further investigation lead to more findings, so the report was expanded to the whole last year. The investigation should show where did the money go, as well as who took it and when.
According to DN daily sources, fake travel orders were written in the names of Husnija Šabović, Maida Bešlić, Nikola Gegaj, Radojica Živković, Žana Filipović, Snežana Jonica, Srđan Perić, Danko Šarančić, Šefkija Murić, Novica Stanić, Neven Gošović, Mićo Orlandić, Obrad Gojković, Radosav Nišavić, Rešid Adrović…
Noone of these individuals is an MP in the new parliament. Noone of them traveled during the dates when the fake orders claim.
Always on the road
DN sources show that a little care was taken of the dates on the orders, so certain MPs were at two different cities at the same time, and some were constantly on the road in December.
According to fake travel orders, Mićo Orlandić spend 20-24 December in Austria, 23-26 in Bulgaria. Šefkija Murić barely ever made it home. He spent the end of November in Belgium, 6-9 December in Macedonia, 14-17 in Croatia, 20-24 in Austria and 28-30 in France. Of course, he made no such travels, and as to why was his name used on these orders is a task for the Prosecution.
The Parliament did not wish to comment on these orders and the damage in the budget, waiting for the institutions to have a final say.
Suspicions
Suspicions of abuse made during Ranko Krivokapić’s time in the Parliament (more than a decade), were strengthened by reluctance of Board of economy to pass a financial report for 2015, insisting on additional data.
Internal revision was started in May last year as well, when Darko Pajović was heading the Parliament. There were doubts in malfunctioning of the system and possible abuse.
The question is where could the trail of fake travel orders lead and who would be investigated. For now, the Prosecution is questioning MPs whose names were used on orders. They were, of course, unpleasantly surprised. That they have not made those travels, they proved with submitting their passports to the Police.
Gegaj: I never went further than Shkoder
One of the “travelers” is former DPS MP Nikola Gegaj. He visited Belgium, Italy and Netherlands in December. Speaking to DN, he said “he never went further than Shkoder at that time”.
“I was surprised to be called by the Police asking to bring my passport. I am very unhappy with the fact someone used my name to steal what is surely not a small amount of money”, Gegaj said.
